The small brain occupies only about 1.5 percent of the braincase in mature individuals. Its weight is negligible: in a 90-pound coelacanth, the brain weighs less than a tenth of an ounce.

The unexpected capture of a living coelacanth in the 1930s was 'the most sensational natural history discovery' of the century. In April 1939, New Zealand's Auckland Star proclaimed that the Loch Ness ...

The African coelacanth, a rare species that’s stayed much the same for the last 400 million years, has a lifespan of about 100 years, around five times longer than previously thought, according to a ...

Analysis of 420-million-year-old Coelacanths fossils in Western Australia ... paired appendages, ossified brain cases, teeth, intromittent genital organs, paired lungs, and chambered hearts ...

NHK and NHK Enterprises teamed up with ZDF, ARTE and OceanX for Deep Ocean: The Kingdom of the Coelacanth and succeeded in capturing the world’s first video images of coelacanths and possible ...